APNIC, in a press-release dated Oct 9th, noted that they had completed their first /24 transfer from ARIN under the new inter-RIR transfer process.
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Inter-RIR IPv4 transfers begin
ARIN announced today the implementation of the Inter-RIR IPv4 transfer policy (2011-1). This policy, which has been discussed over the past two meetings was controversial for a number of reasons including that it would potentially move a lot of address space from the ARIN region to other regions.
Since the policy requires a compatible policy with each RIR only the APNIC region will currently be able to perform transfers under this policy.
ARIN has released new guidelines for “8.4 Inter-RIR Transfers to Specified Recipients”.
The announcement also included a note about a twitter discussion to be held August 8th to discuss the new policy.
2011 IP address usage statistics
Geoff Huston has recently published on his website his annual look at IP address usage in the various regions of the world.
A few notes from the report:
- With the exhaustion of the IPv4 pool in the APNIC region, the total number of IPv4 addresses allocated declined from the previous year. In 2011, 201 million addresses were allocated compared with 248 million in 2010.
- A substantial “run on the bank” occurred as the APNIC pool depleted in 2011. The number of addresses jumped from an average of 2.3 million addresses per week in 2010 to 6.9 million in the first 4 months of 2011.
- Geoff’s RIR exhaustion model still predicts a depletion of the RIPE IPv4 pool in mid-2012. ARIN’s IPv4 pool is currently expected to last until around the end of 2013.
APNIC officially reverses course on “needs” for IPv4 transfers
After almost a year of debate and discussion the final phase of the policy development process was completed with the implementation of the policy into the operating practice at APNIC. When IPv4 transfer policies were adopted to various RIRs most adopted policies which required some form of a “needs based” assessment before they would record a transfer, APNIC’s original IPv4 directed transfer policy did not require any “needs based” requirement. This policy change brings APNIC policy inline with the other 3 RIRs which allow directed transfers. (AfriNIC does not currently have an adopted IPv4 directed transfer policy)
http://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2011/prop-096-implemented
UPDATE:
Two commentaries on the requirement for “needs” based assessments.
The Invisible Hand vs. the Public Interest in IPv4 Address Distribution
International trade in IP address blocks
IPv4 exhaustion officially reaches APNIC
APNIC has made it official, the Asia Pacific region has now fully depleted their IPv4 available address pool. APNIC now has only a reserved /8 remaining that will be used to provide each APNIC member on a single /22.